ADERHOLT: "President Obama's Healthcare Plan Is A Terrible Idea"

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ADERHOLT TRAVELS NORTH ALABAMA EXPRESSING HIS DISAPPROVAL WITH THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTHCARE PROPOSAL

Aderholt: President Obama’s Healthcare Plan Is A Terrible Idea

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) is taking time during the month of August to travel around Alabama’s 4th Congressional District to talk about President Obama’s Healthcare proposal and other legislation that Congress is considering. District stops include the Gadsden Kiwanis Club, the Marshall County AARP picnic, the Russellville Civitan, the Blount County Chamber of Commerce, the Marshall County Manufacturers Association and many others.

Click HERE to read more about the Healthcare Reform Bill that Rep. Aderholt has co-sponsored, the “Empower Patients First Act” (H.R. 3400)..

Congressman Aderholt released the following statement today as he continues to speak to many 4th District constituents and groups about his fight against government-run healthcare in Washington D.C.

“While I had great concern from the beginning about the proposed healthcare legislation proposed by the Democrat leadership in Congress and President Obama, the more I learn about the legislation and the more I talk with constituents, the more firmly I believe that any type of government takeover of healthcare is a terrible idea.”

“With federal spending at the highest level in American history, the economy in a recession, and unemployment at an alarmingly high rate, another massive government program with more spending, more borrowing and higher taxes in the name of ‘healthcare reform’ will only hurt already struggling American families not help them.”

“A government-run healthcare plan will weaken private insurance and give regulatory decisions to bureaucratic boards that will decide which treatments are appropriate and who is eligible. This would do irreparable harm to an American health care system that, for all its faults, provides the world’s greatest care.”

“In addition, the healthcare reform being proposed by the President currently includes taxpayer funded ‘abortion coverage’. This is simply outrageous that some elected officials in Washington want to use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions and I will do everything within my power to stop it.”

“Healthcare in this country may not be perfect but I don’t think we should throw out the entire system as we know it. Common sense reform is what we need and that’s why I have co-sponsored a healthcare reform Bill called the “Empower Patients First Act” (H.R. 3400). This legislation would create policy that relies on the principle that, by increasing patients’ control over their health decisions we will make coverage more affordable, accessible and responsive.”

“The fact of the matter is that the national debt has already increased by nearly 10% since the President took office. The last thing that our nation needs is another massive federal government spending program that takes away our healthcare freedom and extends our debt for years to come.”

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Congressman Robert Aderholt is serving his seventh term as the U.S. Representative of the Fourth Congressional District of Alabama. Rep. Aderholt serves on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, as the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, and a member of the Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee. Rep. Aderholt also serves on the House Budget Committee and the Helsinki Commission.